Door holder



Oct. 13; 1931.

E. M. WINEGAR ET'AL DOOR HOLDER 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Jan. 20, 1950 ZTMJI' ily l' J 0. Ska? INVENTOR ATTORNEY wn'usss 13, 1931- E. M. WINEGAR ET AL I 1,827,634

DOOR HOLDER Filed Jan. 20, 1930 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVEN OR ATTORNEY Got. 13, 1931. M wm R ET AL 1,827,634

: DOOR HOLDER Filed Jan. 20, 1930 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 ,7 M i/z'ze a J C. J INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 13, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT? OFFICE EDMUND M. WINEGAR, or WILLOUGHBY, AND Joim 0. summer wIcx'L rrrE, omo, AS-

SIGrNOItS TO THE WILLOUGHBY OF OHIO DOOR- nofnnn Application filed January 20,1930. Serial No. 422,117.

This invention relates to a door holder, the general object of the invention being to provide means for holding a pair of doors in either open or closed position, with means for operating the holding means from a handle on one door.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim. I

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure l is a horizontal sectional view with parts in plan, showing the invention in use.

Figure 2 is a top plan view showing the holding means in engagement with the keeper member located adjacent the doors.

Figure 3 is a view looking toward the opposite side from that shown in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a side view of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is'a fragmentary view of one of the doors, showing the hand operated means and the means for locking the same against movement.

Figure 6 is a section on line 66 of Fig ure 2.

Figure 7 is a section on line 77 of F igure 1.

In these drawings, the letter A indicates portion of a building and B indicates a pair of doors hingedly connected with portions of the walls of a building. An inverted T shaped track 1 is suspended from the roof or other top part of the building and a carriage2 is slidably arranged on the track, this carriage being of plate-like formand engaging the lower face of a head of the track and having ears 3 on its upper face engaging the upper faces of the flanges of the head. A pairof bars 4:13 pivoted to the carriage, as shown at 5, and the opposite ends of these bars are pivotally connected with the inner faces of the dors, as shown at 6. A pa1r of stop members 7 is adjustably connected w1th the track member, each stop member being of substantially channel shape to receive ,the head of the track member and having one of its flanges bent over one side ofthe flange,

with a block 8 bolted in the channel part and w clamping the other edge of the flange, as clearly shown in Figure 6. I Thus byloosening the bolt, each stopmember can be adjusted on the track. Each stop member carriesa depending keeper 9 and a double latch 10 is pivoted to the carriage midway its ends by the pin 5 which pivots the'bars 4 to the carriage. The latch parts 11' are oppositely arranged so that when the carriage strikes the stop member at the front end of the track, one of the latchparts will engage the keeper thereof and thus holdthe carriage against said stop. ,When the carriage strikes the other stop member, the other latch part 11 will engage the keeper of this stop member and lock the carriage at the opposite end of the track. p

A rod 12 is pivoted to an arm 13 on the latch member 10 and slides through a perforated ear 14 on the plate 2 and a spring15 encircles the rodand tends to hold the latch member in latching position. A cable 16 is connected with the arm 13 and passes over a guiding pulley. 17 on the forward end of one of the bars 4 and then the cable passes to an arm 18 to which the cable is connected, sa1d arm being connected to the inner end of a shaft 19 which is rotatably supported in the free end of one of the doors and has a loop shaped handle 20 on its outer end. The doors may be locked in closed position by means of a padlock 21 engaging the handle 20 and a member 22 connected with the door, whereby turning movement of the handle 20 is prevented.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the opening and closing movements of the doors will cause the bars 4 to move the carriage on the track. Thus when the doors are to be closed, it is simply necessary to swing one of the doors inwardly so that this movement will be imparted to the carriage and the other door and as the carriage reaches the end of its inward movement, the rear latch part 11 will engage the keeper of the rear stop mem- MFG. 00;, or WILLOUGHBY, 01110, A CORPORATION her 7 and thusthe-doors will be locked in closed position, When'the doors are'to be opened, the handle 20 is given a partial rov tary movement so as to. cause the cable to move the latch member 10 to releasing position and then as the door is swung to open positiong'th'e carriageowil'lbepnlled forward- 1y so that "the, other door will be opened and When the carriage reachesits forward limit ofmovemenytheiront latch part 11 will em I gagethekeeperon;-the=forward-stop:memberz j- 7ai1d thus thedoors will be locked in open a position; A'simple turning movement. :of' the handle will release the latch means.

It is thought froniztherforegoing idescripe tion that the advantages and, novel features of theinvention will be readi1y*apparenti-" It istO beiinderStOOdthatchanges maybe' I Inadein -th'ef construction and in the combina ti'onandarrangement of theseveralparts,

'provided that sueh changes fall fwithin the 'scope of-"the appended claim} What We c1aim is: d V

- ln c mbinationewitha pair of doors, a track",a carriageshding thereon and consisti got-a plat havin ears-thereonWhichyare a bent oriefithef edges '(Ethe track; a'bar pivotal ly connected toeach' door, with the inner ends -of'the bar'sgpi voted to' the carriage, a pair of fs't'o'p's "slidably arranged on the track, clamping ineans' forhe1ding'the stops in adjusted 'pos'it'ion omthe trackykeepers on the stops, -a ,double 'latch' pivoted to the carriage sand *hayifig oppositely arranged-keeper engaging members at i its? ends,sspringiimeans for 'normally holding the 1atohin1atchir1g position, a cable having 'one'enfd connected witha part of the latch, a rotaryi-handleon onerdoor'to 1 which: the other end-ofthe cable is'oonnected and guidingmean'son one ofthe'bars fqrth tum 5. V .7 V V p i J -EDMUND WINEGiiRi" v JGBN SHUT T; 1 V 

